Oscars 2014 nominations announced

Nominations for the 86th Academy Awards were announced at 5:30 AM PT this morning at a news conference at the Academy’s Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills. The Best Picture category ended up with nine nominees, including for Sony’s American Hustle and Warner Bros’ Gravity, which led the field with 10 nominations overall. They were followed by Fox Searchlight’s 12 Years A Slave, which had nine noms overall. 86th Academy Awards Nominations Announcement The rest of the Best Pic list: Sony’s Captain Phillips (though no actor nom for Tom Hanks or director nom for Paul Greengrass), Focus Features’ Dallas Buyers Club, Warners’ Her, Paramount’s Nebraska, The Weinstein Company’s Philomena and Paramount’s The Wolf Of Wall Street, the last and maybe most hot-button movie to land in voters hands this awards season which also landed noms for Best Actor (Leonardo DiCaprio), Supporting Actor (Jonah Hill), Directing (Martin Scorsese) and Adapted Screenplay (Terence Winter).